Industrial Design in Vietnam

Use of an industrial design is regulated by Vietnam IP law as follows:

Before the NOIP issues a notice of its refusal to grant a protection title or a decision on the grant of a protection title[...]

Amendment and supplementation of Industrial design applications are carried out as follows:

If client would like to file an industrial design in Vietnam, SBLaw would like to provide our guidance as follows:

If you have a industrial design and would like to register it, SBLaw would like to inform you some information about protecting your industrial design in Vietnam for your reference:

SBLaw would like to provide the guideline for industrial design in Vietnam as follows:

1. Definition Industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements. Products herein are understood to mean articles, tools, equipments, or parts used for assembling such products, manufactured by industrial or handicraft methods, with a structure and clear function,...

If the applicant to whom the NOIP has sent a notice on its intended refusal of the application fails to correct errors or unsatisfactorily corrects errors or makes no opposition or makes unreasonable opposition to the intended rejection within the set time limit,the NOIP shall send a notice on its refusal of the application[...]

(1) Filing the application In order to obtain right for industrial design in Viet Nam,you must file the application for granting an industrial design patent,directly or by mail,to the National Office of Intellectual Property of Viet Nam (NOIP) or its brand offices in Ho Chi Minh City or Da Nang. Organizations,individuals...

1. novel industrial design - An industrial design shall be deemed to be new if it significantly differs from other industrial designs which have been publicly disclosed by use or by means of written descriptions or in any other form either inside or outside Vietnam prior to the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the application for registration of the industrial design.

Where an applicant for registration of an industrial design knows that such industrial design is being used by another person without prior use right for commercial purposes[...]

An application for a Industrial design registration filed with the NOIP shall be subject to formality examination for evaluating its validity[...]

On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest,the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]

In order to reach the Industrial design registration certificate, the applicants have to fulfill the whole examination procedure consists of following steps[...]